I’ve been looking up the cities, resorts and hotels online. We’re getting quite excited. How we can pack all we’ll need in one suitcase each for four weeks we haven’t yet worked out. Any hints from any seasoned travellers out there?

This has to be the holiday of a lifetime for us. Come the new year we’ll both be retired and our main income will be our pensions. Still, we’ve seen more of the world than we could have dreamt of just ten years ago.